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    The Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God
    The Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God
    The Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God
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    The Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God

    Written by Ronald Rolheiser

    Narrated by Br. Benedict Young

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    For most religious people, the words God and sex never go together. God is conceived of as holy, pure, sexless, and as morally above the raw desires that so powerfully beset us. Sex, on the other hand, is conceived of as earthy and unholy, something we must snatch, and not without guilt, from the gods. Christianity has struggled mightily with sex; so too have most other religions. And yet when we look at sexual desire and ask where it comes from, there can be only one answer. It comes from God. This is a book on desire, its experience, its origins, its meaning, and how it might be generatively channeled. Sexuality is inside us to help lure us back to God, but dealing with this fire inside us is a lifelong struggle. Ron Rolheiser sheds light on this mystery and the journey it takes us on in these tantalizing fragments that help give us permission to feel what we feel and know that God is still smiling on us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateMar 17, 2021
    ISBN9781640607019
    The Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God

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    • 5/5
      Never have I heard a more practical and yet deeply profound book that discusses the ails of modern times and proposes solutions that ancient and modern spiritual thinkers have found liberating. This book is a must for all Christians and human beings.
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      Very well written. Exactly what I was looking for. Well read as well.